Special to WorldTribune , January 29, 2018 Commentary by David Morgan, Asheville Tribune The economic gurus are up in arms over President Donald Trump’s placing a few tariffs on some products; this time on washing machines and solar panels. The general mantra used is that tariffs are a bad idea and that these tariffs are […]
Special to WorldTribune , January 28, 2018 By John T. McNabb This commentary was first published by the North State Journal. The spectacle of the government shutdown underscores the failure of the political class to grasp the depth of contempt with which working Americans view them. To understand the pure intensity of this contempt they […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2018 A 2005 photograph of then-Sen. Barack Obama and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan could have been disastrous for Obama’s political career if it had been released at the time, the journalist who took the photo said. “I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Obamagate is the greatest scandal in modern U.S. history, and the mainstream media knows it. This is why they are desperately trying to ignore it. It won’t work. Washington is circling the wagons, trying to protect the FBI from the growing scandal. Yet, the media-enabled “Deep State” conspiracy to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brittany Jennings Don’t let the military jet fly-over fool you this Super Bowl. The NFL is just as anti-military as they were before. The NFL rejected a veterans group, AMVET’s, Super Bowl ad because it asks people to stand for the anthem. The two words that frighten the NFL and Roger […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia ― How quickly we forget. Memories, dates and events fade away, only to be revived on anniversaries. A lot of historical events are barely recalled. I was in a country named “South” Vietnam 50 years ago when North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attacked almost every […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – Koreans may not believe it, but the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics are not uppermost on the minds of Americans. In fact, no one in the upper reaches of the U.S. government, including President Trump, is worrying about whether North Korea is using the Games to drive a […]
Special to WorldTribune By Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution Editors’ note: The following, published originally on Jan. 29, 2016, is still relevant two years later. A significant portion of our national security establishment, painstakingly built up during the Cold War, has accepted the assumption that when it comes to threats from sovereign states, Russia, not […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 14, 2018 Chelsea Manning has filed to run as a Democrat for a U.S. Senate seat in Maryland. Manning, 30, is challenging two-term Sen. Ben Cardin in the June primary. Manning’s filing was received Jan. 11, according to Federal Election Commission records. In 2013, the ex-army intelligence analyst formerly known as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 12, 2018 Even with overwhelming evidence of its failure “everywhere it has been tried,” socialism remains a threat to freedom, two analysts said. A 2016 Gallup poll found 35 percent of Americans viewed socialism favorably. Among voters younger than 30, that number was an eye-opening 55 percent, Garland S. Tucker III […]